This is Stout's monthly curated digest of hiring and employment news. Sign up to receive it each month in your email inbox. An estimated 4.5 million workers quit or changed […]

Ah for the good old days when you hired typists by sitting them down at a typewriter and giving them a typing test. 50 words per minute and no mistakes? […]

What do you think about the following responses to the interview question, "So…why do you want to work here?" "I heard the benefits here are really great." "You guys are […]

I've been a web developer for a long time, and one concept that always comes up is turning HTML into a PDF. It's a pretty natural request; HTML is a […]

If you think about it, in any state that has passed at-will employment laws, a company can fire an employee at any time for any reason. At will means that employees […]

Here at Stout we screen a lot of technical candidates. Our first step is to filter the resumes. (We have little need for glass window installers despite the fact that […]

They say that showing up is half the battle. I’m not sure who originally said that. A Google search will attribute the quote to everyone from Woody Allen to Stephen […]

When it comes to hiring or promoting a software engineer, communication skills can be used as the tie-breaker between two equally talented people. But that term—communication skills—is so broad that […]

I have found that many technical people do not know how to effectively write a cover letter to accompany a resume submission. A cover letter is your opportunity to positively […]

One of the first “lessons learned” for novice programmers is that the time required to program the typical usage scenarios can be fairly accurately estimated, but the time required for […]